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Morocco’s king is in France and met French President Francois Hollande on Friday. It was not clear how he died.
Before the attacks, European governments thought that Abaaoud was still in Syria.
Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin who fought for Islamic State in Syria, was killed in a police raid north of Paris on Wednesday.
His mangled body was identified on Thursday. Tips and surveillance of phone calls lead police to the neighbourhood where they launched the assault operation.
The identities of most of the eight people detained by police are also unclear.
Yassine has been held in custody since then, the source said. Under French law, officials can detain suspects for up to 96 hours without charges. Mr Cazeneuve said that Abaaoud had played “a key role” in planning at least four terrorist attacks or attempted attacks since the spring, but admitted that no European country had detected the Belgian-born terrorist crossing their borders. Here are the two videos showing the terrorists responsible for the Paris attacks. The measure now goes to the Senate, where it likely will be approved.
Police powers have also been bolstered to allow officers to carry weapons when they are off duty.
Meanwhile French Prime minister Manuel Valls has warned that France could face chemical or biological attack from terror groups.
“Terrorism hit France not because of what it is doing in Iraq and Syria… but for what it is”, Valls told lawmakers.
“It suggests they have something specific and credible at the intelligence front pointing them in the direction that there may be a terrorist plot in the works”, he said.
A source close to the investigation told CNN the search for one of them, Salah Abdeslam, has been extended to include the Netherlands, where Abdeslam had spent time in the past.
Inside the auto police found an arsenal of weapons including several kalashnikovs.
While quickly tracking Abaaoud down will be seen as a major success for French authorities, his presence in Paris will focus more attention on the difficulty European security services have in monitoring the continent’s borders. And the threat from ISIS, which has boasted about the attacks and threatened more such worldwide, remains very real. “But if all the countries in the world aren’t capable of fighting against 30,000 people (IS members), it’s incomprehensible”.
“It is urgent that Europe wakes up, organises itself and defends itself against the terrorist threat”, Cazeneuve told reporters. “It is necessary to move fast and hard”.
Six new raids are underway near the Belgian capital of Brussels, France’s chief prosecutor has confirmed, as France seeks to extend the state of emergency introduced after last week’s deadly attacks.
The other killed in the strike was a woman who blew herself up.
The chief suspect in the Paris attacks was wanted dead by his own family.
One of the suspects killed in the raid was a woman who detonated her suicide vest, but her identity and that of the other dead suspect was unclear. Under the request, those on terrorist watch lists – about 800 residents in Belgium now – would be forced to wear ankle bracelets to track their movements.
Wherever he is, attorney Nathalie Gallant, who represents the 26-year-old suspect’s brother Mohamed, said the family hasn’t heard from him and is hoping Abaaoud’s death will persuade him to surrender.
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“Clearly there are support networks that people can use to go back and forth, ” he said. “Do they actually believe that they can prop up Assad and win on the ground militarily inside of Syria against all of the opposition?”
